Kasteel Terborgt

En un regard

Le château en bref

Terborgt (Ter Borght) is a seigneurial estate in Elewijt, in the municipality of Zemst, at no. 505 Tervuursesteenweg. The name suggests an early medieval motte-and-bailey castle, with an upper and a lower bailey. The earliest known image is an engraving by Harrewijn from 1699, which shows a ‘huis van plaisantie’ of the late seventeenth century on three islands (castle, lower bailey, garden). The castle, long linked to the van Waelhem family (until 1660), was enlarged in the 1880s and then destroyed by the Germans in 1914 during the fighting at Schiplaken. Hélène Beaufort had it rebuilt in 1936 as a plain brick villa. An outbuilding with a seventeenth-century core and a nineteenth-century landscape park preserve the memory of the site. Acquired in 1999 by its present owners, the estate was restored and in 2005 was supplemented by a star-shaped grove designed by Michel Vrijhoeven. It has been listed in the Flemish inventory of architectural heritage since 2021.